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Though Bluetooth is a nice wireless way to use your phone as a modem, Bluetooth has it’s issues and sometimes it’s just not worth it when you can connect your phone via USB easily and without fuss. Using a USB cable would ensure faster transfer speeds over Bluetooth, if the maximum Bluetooth speed is capping your speed, and would also utilize less battery from your phone thereby giving advantages if you don’t mind the wires flowing around

Requirements:

Ensure your phone is configured to be able to connect to the Internet (example for DSTCom Brunei)

Drivers for the phone to be recognized as a modem on your computer (should be on CD that comes with the phone, or in the installed software, or possibly find it online)

Notes:

Following guide is done on Windows XP, if you need a Mac version, do lend me your Mac and I can tried make 1 for you =)

As a follow up to “Configuring your phone for mobile Internet (DST)”, in this post I’ll detail how to use your phone as a Bluetooth modem freeing you from the mess of wires and also providing a way to utilize tethering without installing bloated phone software like the Nokia PC Suite. Using this method also allows DST users with 3G SIM cards and 3G/3.5G capable phones to enjoy the great speeds of DST’s Go! without having to subscribe the the DST Go! service or buying the Go! SIM card or buying the USB modem.

Requirements:

Phone with Bluetooth

Computer with Bluetooth

SIM card with credit (duh)

Requirements for high speed Internet over 3G/3.5G

3G/3.5G phone in 3G mode (3G only or dual mode is acceptable but not GSM)

3G SIM card

3G phone signal (for Nokia phones it is shown with a little “3G” icon under the regular signal bar)

Note1: if phone/SIM does not meet 3G requirements or no 3G signal is available, the phone will fall back to slower GPRS / Edge connection, but the Internet will still be accessible.

Note2: Not all 3G/3.5G phones are created equally and each have a maximum 3G speed that it can obtain. This can hinder These details can be obtained online from places such as GSMArena.com. E.g. Nokia 6680 max 3G speed of 384 kbps, Nokia E51: max speed of 3.6 Mbps.

My current configuration setup:

Windows XP Professional

Using “dst.internet” as the access point

HP Compaq nx6320 notebook

Nokia E51 / Nokia 6680 / Nokia 3110c

The following is the brief outline of the procedure utilizing “My Bluetooth Places” software provided by WIDCOMM preinstalled with the notebook, however the concept stays the same over any computer / Bluetooth software:

Pair phone and computer

Configure phone as a Bluetooth modem

Create network connection dialing *99#

Optional: set extra initialization command to: +CGDCONT=,,”dst.internet” where “dst.internet” is the access point to connect to

Despite the maximum speed defined in the modem settings is 921600 bps (= 900 kbps) which is less than 3.6 Mbps or 7.2 Mbps offered by Go! and typical phones, I have managed to get 1.5 Mbps connections using this Bluetooth method my previous speed tests so I’m not really sure what’s up with that.

Nokia Phones with Nokia PC Suite

Refer to this post. It is for USB connection, but follows the same concept

Been having a problem since yesterday of not being able to surf using Opera Mini using dst.internet or dst.wap. Anybody else having the same problems? Did DSTCom block access to the Opera Mini’s proxy servers?

–Update 26/02/2009: All seems well now. I guess it was some mix up over at DSTCom